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The radio show that turned into a record label.

Melodica started life as an idea for a radio show by Chris Coco.
The idea is simple, to present the best new music that Chris has found in a given week, music that reflects his broad, eclectic taste – beautiful music that can loosely be termed Balearic, which means it can’t be categorised, it just has something special about it. Music that is informed by but not limited too the development of electronica and computer based sounds, music that knows all about house music and club culture but doesn’t always need to jump up and down. Music that likes to dance sometimes and just be sometimes.
So that means post – dubstep electronica but it also means dub and reggae, acoustic songs, slo mo disco, proper house, and the odd quirky left field classic.
The first radio station to take the show was Ibiza Sonica, so there’s a link there, but it’s not all Ibiza music, Chris lives in London and soaks up all the influences of that most cosmopolitan of cities.

The show has been running for two years now and Chris has built a dedicated following for his intimate style of delivery and his passion for new, varied sounds. Check the archive at:

http://www.mixcloud.com/chriscoco/

Melodica the record label is a natural progression from Melodica, the radio show. it will reflect Chris’s taste, present a broad range of sounds with an emotional depth and raw beauty. The releases won’t fit easily into one musical genre, but after a few releases some sort of thread will emerge, there will be a sound, we’re just not quite sure what it’s going to be yet. There’s an adapted logo too, specially designed by renowned artist She One. The logo is a digital dubplate, it looks like a record because we like the feel of old vinyl.

The Rules

Because it’s a record label there have to be a few rules to make sense of all this creative chaos. So here they are.
Singles, whether they are digital or physical, will be singles, imaginary 7s if you will, with a definite a-side and a definite b-side. The a-side will be the song or the hooky thing that you want to play again and again, the b-side will be something more experimental, maybe something the artist loves, maybe a tune you will end up loving forever once the impact of the a-side has worn off.
Albums will be albums, a creative statement, about 12 track long, and less than an hour in length. That way the listeners won’t get bored and the artists will have do some real thinking about what to put on and what to leave off. And they will look good with specially commissioned artwork from cool visual people, and the artists will be encouraged to write sleeve notes and lyric sheets, so there’s something to flick through (physically or virtually) while you’re listening to the music.
Of course there will be remixes and re-versions too, they are part of who we are now, they have been part of electronic music culture since the invention of the 12″ single, and they are an opportunity for more cross-genre experimentation and entertainment.
And the final rule is, of course, that the rules can be broken but only in extraordinary circumstances to make something really cool.

Melodica – Good music. Good people. Good times.

It’s been a while since club legend Rui DaSilva and chill out supremo Chris Coco got together to make a record.

They made several singles for Rui’s label Kismet Records, the most successful being Saudade, still used today by many DJs as a late night super deep secret weapon.

Now, Coco has travelled to Rui’s current studio base in Ibiza to collaborate on new pieces which reflect their mutual love of deep, experimental electronic music.

There are three tracks to choose from here.

Two companion pieces, Don’t Say Nothing and Say Something, a song and an instrumental are on the A side.

Don’t Say Nothing is about the total breakdown of a relationship, the point where it is impossible for the two people involved to communicate in any way. Say something is, perhaps appropriately, an instrumental, no words but a more optimistic feel.

The song titles owe a debt to a poster by graphic artist Anthony Burrill.

On the flip, Make It has a more after hours feel, the lyrics a fractured poem about the futility of modern existence itself.

Numerous productions since the 90s, remix and album done, musicians began to BBC radio programs in addition to the identity of their own prepared, published online continuing with Melodica Radio Show, as well as the editor of the magazine and has operations in many areas, Chris Coco, this week This Week’s Originals guest.

Chris Coco is a place you know is infected with electronic music, if you do not know the right place to learn.

Radio Originals: answering these questions, let’s start by learning what to listen to the interview.

Chris Coco: Friendly Fire “now I am listening to remix’ini yen hit single. After that, the 6th Borough Project’s new album, a collection of recordings and listen to Nigeria 70.

Rao: Chris is a full-time DJ and prodüktörsün. At the same time doing the publishing and radio journalism. All this within a 24-hour time period konumluyorsun how? Think it is a serious sleep problems.

Chris Coco: I really like to sleep, it certainly can not be a problem. We always have a lot to do, yes.But the main problem is to educate all those things necessary to be a regular one with the struggle between the need for creativity to be irregular.

Rao: get it in the music industry for many years. About changing the course of electronic music in the 2000s to the 90s when you look at what you want to say. Are we really do not end up on the right way is it bad?

Chris Coco: Everything is changing. I think the biggest handicap of the 90s biggest music companies in the sector to adapt new technologies had the opportunity to leak out. All were connected to the old system and now with the ambition of the negative results we have to endure all of us. During this time, would be wrong to say that music has changed the process of creation, management and marketing side of business was the difference. As a result, now has become more difficult to earn money by just listening.

Rao: DJing and other uğraşlarının, as well as doing radio programs. How did the idea of ​​Melodica Radio Show?

Chris Coco: the BBC is already doing a program called The Blue Room. This program ends and new atmospheric electronic music that felt the need to publish the other channels. I love music and the strange way feel the need to share good music. Melodica to meet all these needs has been born to himself as the best way.

Rao: I think that mobile technologies, the development of effective dissemination of music. In this perspective, we look at what to say about the internet radios do you want?

Chris Coco: Work is already progressing in this manner. A radio show in my studio in London to prepare and I like the idea of ​​it spreading to the whole world. Live, Internet radio stations broadcasting in digital and personal they are in co-operation we need. I’ve done exactly this with the fact Melodica. Listen to music you want when you want to be very good. There was very little choice but to listen to good music as a teenager and was very hard. Easy access to music, the real value of the consuming, but maybe this is very important for people. I can tell by looking at the reactions Melodica’ya easily… Read full interview and listen to guest mix here